TripAdvisor Reviews Ayun Takayama Central Hotel

Travel Blogs from Takayama

... umbrellas outside Centre4Burgers the previous night as the sky was threatening rain. We found our hotel after 3 minutes walk from the station. After reading all the tourist brochures and scouring Trip Advisor for top restaurants we headed back to the station mall for some sushi. The restaurant was really fun as it had a circling conveyor belt of sushi. The menus were iPads where you could view the rolls and sushi, make your selections and then hit the order button. ...

We woke to a cool cloudy rainy day. We packed on several layers and headed our on the town. First on our list was to check out the morning markets. Our first stop was the Miyagawa Morning Market along the river. Tents were filled to the brim with fresh vegetables, some I had never seen before one of which looked like massive white carrots. Other stalls had hand made Sarubobo dolls which is a Japanese amulet native to Takayama. Traditionally, grandmothers made them for ...

Headed to Asakusa to see the Senso-Ji shrine. Then over to the Edo Museum. Was unfortunate it was undergoing major refurbishments so it was ready for the Tokyo Olympics, so only got to see a small portion of the exhibits. What we did see was really good to give an abridged version of how the city developed from the Edo period through to modern day. Had underground wooden piping for water supply, and made umbrellas out of peanut oil coated paper. Meant to meet Showhey for dinner, ...

Woke up this morning and must have been snowing a fair bit last night. A solid dusting on everything, and still coming down fairly heavily (well by our standards anyway) Temperature predictions for the day are tops of 3, lows of -4. Glad we have plenty of warm clothes. Had lots of fun walking through the snow and knocking the trees to make the snow fall on each other. Though the numb toes and fingers were less fun. Walked down to the ...

... m sure they would have been friendly and cuddly if we had of see one though :p Bought a couple of little carved wooden owls, to go with the shelf an blackboard we bought in town a craft wood store. Fingers crossed they make it back in the post! Stopped in at another little cafe for lunch and a coffee. Felt a bit like an old English pub, but with lots of clocks on the ...